Here’s the downside to watching any footage of Dark Souls — or even looking at its collector’s edition art book. You’re going to see some of the game’s impressive and imposing enemies. But our latest look at Dark Souls, leading up to the game’s release next week, is still a must-see.
The Demon’s Souls story returns in Dark Souls, and so does the game’s narrator, and so does her creepy pronunciation of “fog”, which sounds like “fug”, which Jezebel would tell us is an altogether different thing. Here is the prologue to the game, establishing how the land has once again become a hellhole and why it’ll be so much fun saving it.
You know, it was one of the great tragedies of the 1990s that we never got a Saved by the Bell video game on the SNES. One heavily inspired by the Earthbound series, in which you had to help Zack do whatever he did for 23 minutes an episode.